Re: Should I buy this? (Need advice!)

Well, you won't have to worry about interest or not cause as far as I know it's not possible to build your own laptop.

The CPU is kind of slow at 1.6ghz which will hinder your wow performance because wow is primiarly a CPU intensive game. I wouldn't go for anything below a 2.4ghz chip.

Ram and video card looks cool and should do well. I'm not a fan of laptop coolers cause personally I don't think they work all that well. You're probably better off just propping up the laptop off the table with a couple text books. I did read a review of the notebook cooler and it seems it keeps the laptop fan from coming on full while during a load test. That could potentially save you some battery power but it'll just be drawn by the cooler. Plus if you're trying to play on battery power it'll be a very short gaming session regardless ^_^

Re: Should I buy this? (Need advice!)

Originally Posted by Psilo

The processor is a 4x 1.60 Ghz. I don't know if that will retain the output of 6.4 Ghz or not?

Core speed isn't additive, but that specific CPU has turbo capabilities and can overclock all four cores to 2.8ghz I believe. I also believe turbo is completely under your control with the 720QM, so you can overclock to 2.8ghz whenever you need it on your own. I'm not sure how it handles turbo without user input, but the desktop counterparts are fairly aggressive when it does clock the cores higher.

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Re: Should I buy this? (Need advice!)

Originally Posted by op3l

WoW only uses 1 core, so it will essentially be 1.6ghz.

I really wish people would stop saying that... because it's just not true. WoW is made of one large main thread, one large sound thread, and a bunch of smaller threads. It can easily use a quad core CPU. On my i5 750, I often see utilization levels of 70/30/30/70% while playing WoW.

As long as you get a (dual core) CPU that's at least 2.4GHz+ and a decent video card you will be OK. For a desktop I would say 3GHz minimum, but that number is kind of hard to get on a laptop, especially with a budget. I also put dual core in parenthesis because most quad cores are budget and have a much lower clock speed than a dual core, which won't benefit your WoW or any other game performance.

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Re: Should I buy this? (Need advice!)

Originally Posted by Cilraaz

I really wish people would stop saying that... because it's just not true. WoW is made of one large main thread, one large sound thread, and a bunch of smaller threads. It can easily use a quad core CPU. On my i5 750, I often see utilization levels of 70/30/30/70% while playing WoW.

Re: Should I buy this? (Need advice!)

Originally Posted by Cilraaz

You realize that more than one thread can reside on a core, right?

Yes, and I chose the wrong terminology, how dare I post after a night of watching play off hockey and drinking. I meant to say wow never utilizes more than 4 cores (not threads). And when it does, it only uses 2 cores primarily, and 2 for sub tasks.